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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1933
Page
6
Durant, a sharp young attorney, enters Gertie Warted’s Chicago style penthouse amid a murky crime web. He contemplates a frame against Siddall while tracking Levitoff’s murder and a looming underworld confrontation as the case tightens.
An oral reminiscence recalls Captain Bishop of the fire department at the old central station near the telephone building. One evening he sought laundry twine from a laundryman, was refused, and then strapped twine around his arm in a long winded tale. The laundryman drove off unaware of the prank.
Readers see a prize quilt and learn padded quilting in a simple, delightful pattern. The article notes ease and speed, with transfer motifs and instructions for cushions, pillows, and decorative items. Send 10 cents to the San Antonio Light Needlecraft Department for the pattern.
Pattern 4763 and 9763 show an eight gore and a six gore skirt for waist sizes 28 to 34 inches. Instructions include a diagonal yoke panel to slenderize the figure and yardage for 54 inch fabric. Order form requests name and address with 15 cents per pattern and pattern book details.
A vintage advertising fragment urges women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to steady nerves, gain energy, and improve home life. The noisy text promotes overall well being and stresses reliability of the remedy for anxious mothers.
Dear Miss Fairfax counsels a 20 year old who dates a 23 year older married man. The advice warns that such ties waste youth, may not bring happiness, and highlights lack of unselfishness in the older man. It urges the girl to seek honest work via a properly phrased Situation Wanted ad at Broadway and Fifth Street.
A recipe for CHOCOLATE WHEAT PUDDING using cooked flaked wheat, sugar, chocolate, milk, and eggs is given as a budget friendly breakfast idea. The note highlights flaked wheat as nutritious for children and suggests versatile uses beyond breakfast, plus a pricing aside and a social observation about a wife and husband dynamics.
A reader asks how a widow should style her name. The advice is that she uses the same form as when her husband was alive, so visiting cards read Mrs. George Alan Gimli and signatures may use ALICE JONES SMITH for formal correspondence.
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